Susanne K. Frantz 

Susanne K. Frantz is the former Curator of 20th-Century Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass in New York. She held that position for 13 years until relocating to the Czech Republic in 1998 as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. During her five years of residence in Prague, her research focused on the evolution of glass sculpture in Bohemia between the two World Wars.

Frantz’s book, Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, 1989), remains a primary reference in the field. In 1996 she was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing of distinction in the arts by the New York Historical Association. Among the exhibitions that she organized for Corning were Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová: A 40-Year Collaboration in Glass and The Glass Skin: Recent International Sculpture (with the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf). Her 2003 exhibition The Other Side of the Looking Glass: The Glass Body and Its Metaphors was curated for the Turtle Bay Museum in California. She also organized Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations in 2005 for the Museum of American Glass, New Jersey, and in 2008 she authored Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass (University of Washington Press).

Ms. Frantz is past President and Honorary Lifetime Member of the Glass Art Society and former editor of the Glass Art Society Journal.